Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-30

ene-stories OF the ludan and of tie sea,
witch latter are never without their
charms to landsmen.
"Reggie is in comfort st the hall, F"
thought Melspie: $50 why need 1 look
f"r employment? But the time may yet
come"
Some weeks OF peace, to her at least,
! pissed pleasantly OF; but even that peSct
came to an end; and Uncle Grimshaw,
Who had been in correspondence with Sir
| Brisco st his club, rene wed in al its weary
sameness, the subject again, one morn
/ ing when Melanie came down to break.
fast, looking so sweet and fair, hel
smooth cheeks just touched with faint
] wildrose bloom, her beautiful hair sws pi
~ from the white nape of her slender
ueck, and with all the charms about heI
OF that freshness which bears the test oil
daylight, that he might have spared bel
/ annoyance; but the hard old man o!
Bircnln-lane WIS memorable.
"The views CT Sir Brisco and his pro-
! louged kindness TO your useless brother
nave not been quite purposeless," said he
one day; sand he informs me that be will
call over again, formally"
"To see Whom?"
"You"
"GOod heavens, uncle-sgain! !"
ayes; and you know we'll with what
| Obi CT. Marriage"
"Again; TO mar his kindness hv most
I upgenerous and urgentlemaply pal ecu
'ion," exclaimed Melarie, full Of resent
ment.
"Harsh language, Melenle. He will Do
! SO at nv request and suggestion -
az thought as much. 1t is intolersble
How often am 1 to say that Will not
marry him?"
"Dare you still disobey me?" he asked,
grjmly but quietly.
Melanie bit her pink neither lip in
silence. All her hsrd necessities and
nalf-formed resolutions were brought TO
the surface again.
your brother cannot live always ike a
pauper ct the hall: ard so, on retGrniD 9
here, be goes straight to home for in
cura bles-I have sworn it!'
"Kind Sir Bfisco will never permit
tbst!"
"His patience may get worn out, too;
and he will not oppose me. Consider his
wealth-his high character on one hand,
your own wretched prospects on the
ether. How many girls would Jump at
GAt SAhhSG-bU use u NCIJ pldlu
"Do you suppose have no feeling, no
honor, no compunction, uncle, while on
my foyer have the riDg-"
OF one you never hear from and may
never see sgain. But life is too short to
discuss useless probe ms!" exclaimed
Mr Grimshaw, with intense wrath, while
he ground his teeth and his colorless eyes
sctusliy flashed. "Cease this sentimental
Gbsurdity of yours, please"
"But l suffer, UNCLE" urged Melanie,
iuteracirg her slender fingers.
"AEd do not suffer-" snsrled Uuc
Grimshaw, as he ATTACKED grilled chicken,
after plate of curried prAWns.
"HIW?"
"Can you ask me how? With the sor-
did difficulties Of circumscribed means
IF poverty stricken life"
at might be woree," was the
thought of Malanie, as she pondered on
the very little he spent on her, and OF ell,
cut of those "circumscribet MEANS" ne
spent upon himself-the Injuries Of his
club in London, & saddle-horse, and many
other items.
"You live II misery OF your cwn crea-
tion," said he. "The silence Of Captain
'"lu yet De AullS explained -
"Explsint d?" repeated Uocle Grim
shaw, So he WINGED perez p'ibly.
"When he returns, il not before that"
replied Melsnie, confidently.
"That may or may not be-" said her IN
Gle, dCgeedly. "Me8ntime it looks very |
i'll; and the love OF q good man, true
love like that of Sir Brisco
any girl in England might be proud to
accept, yet you decline it,"
81 am not free
"a word of your own could free you.
What stands in your wsy?"
''My promise "
"Fiddlestickl The dream of 8 girls
and gone, hope, long ago."
Numbered Uncle Grimsnsw. He turned
away, afraid to trust himself to say more,
md lit an expensive cigar.
But just then he was following the bent
If his own wishes and doing IL Justice to
Sir Brisco, who was too generous and
liEd by nature to attempt to trade upon
he gratitude of Melsnie for his hospital
ty-to call it Dy its lest name-to her
brother.
And yet the girl could not help reflect
DC toat, after being refu+ed, for Sir
sristo to persist in calling again and agsin
t the cOttsge-eVen atremote intervals
Vss treating her, if not with discourtesy,
| not with rumilistiop, as if she had been
wilful child thst knew not its own
mind
CHAPTER XXIX.-DOUBT AND FEAR.
In a preceding chapter, we left Dr.
'rendon, the vicar Of Stokencross, using
ONE what sharp language with reference
0 Horace MuEgraYe, and threatening to
roceed to the Emerald Isle, to see that
ecreant young officer personally.
But he did not find 1t necessary, as the
quel proved, either 20 travel thither or
ut his threats in force.
With impetuous Amy, surprise st the !.
Mysterious silence of her lover had soon
wen place in succession to modification,
and latterly dire slarm. The .
primer emotion led her to think OF dis
,isslng him, ii possible, from her !
but her engagement was too :
Iuch settled fact for that yet; and alarm,
orrow and disappointment grew and
snkled side oy side. She had loved sud- =
emily, too suddenly, perhaps, as her
lother gested, and found she was de-
lived; and that her idol, as her father,
le vicar, said, twas but one of clay, C
erest clay, after all" b
When they had first countenanced the C
Engagement, pending the dictum of Mus t
raves "deer old governor" as he called t
IS father, 1t came upon the white-hsired b
car and his wife-hut the former more b
Ipecielly-as something of a shock, 8 K
ovelty, that this little Amy was no C
noer a mere girl hut q woman who q